Millbay Channel
Lat/long
50 21.44N 50 21.67N	04 09.93W 04 09.12W
50 21.62N 50 21.53N	04.09.02W 04 09.43W

Location description (1957)

Millbay Channel (1423 fm.). The deep channel from the bend southward of Devil's Point to the passage between Drake's Island and Millbay is a workable dredging ground. Formerly this was one of the most productive dredging grounds of the Sound, from the abundance of honey-combed limestone stones; but these have been depleted as a result, apparently, of harbour dredging operations some years ago. In the early l950s the ground between E. Vanguard Buoy and N. Drake's Island Buoy, and off Firestone Bay, yielded rather numerous paired valves of Venerupis pullastra filled with mud inhabited by Thalassema neptuni and Kellia suborbicularis. Near the N.W. Drake's Island Buoy Pandalus montagui may occasionally be caught by trawling in the main channel.

Updated information

Description updated in 1999

Species List

>Alcyonium digitatum Bathynectes longipes Metridium senile Ostrea edulis